Violinist, composer, and conductor David Fulmer was named a winner of the 56th annual BMI Student Composer Awards, and was recently presented the prestigious Charles Ives Award (Scholarship) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his original compositions. David graduated from the Masters program at Juilliard pursuing studies in composition with Milton Babbitt and violin with Robert Mann, and is currently completing his studies there as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow. As the violist of the Zukofsky Quartet, he presented the pioneering program of the complete string quartets of Milton Babbitt in numerous venues throughout the United States. He appears frequently and records often with the premiere new music ensembles Speculum Musicae, the Group for Contemporary Music, the New York New Music Ensemble, and also with the Second Instrumental Unit, an ensemble that he co-founded and directs. His recent compositions have been commissioned by the American Composers Alliance Festival, Zukofsky Quartet, Mimesis Ensemble, Cygnus Ensemble, Italian Academy (Columbia University), Lyndon Institute, Tetras Quartet, Monadnock Music Festival. Most recently, David was awarded the annual commissioning prize from the New Juilliard Ensemble (The Juilliard School), and will compose a violin concerto to be premiered in Alice Tully Hall (Spring 2010) with himself as the soloist. David was just appointed to serve on the faculty of Columbia University where he teaches violin performance and chamber music.